Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 167, Decatur, Adams County, 17 July 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 167.

Fidel Castro Resigns As Prime Minister Os Cuba; Reports Tonight

HAVANA, Cuba (UPD — Fidel Castro has resigned as prime minister of Cuba, his brother Raul Castro said today. Raul, who is chief of the armed forces, said Fidel would report to the people by radio on his reasons tonight. In a brief statement broadcast over the rebel radio, Raul called on the nation to maintain serenity and wait for his brother’s pronouncements. Raul said the people should keep calm “and wait for the responsible and convincing words from Dr. Fidel Castro.” The rebel radio also called on the working class to remain at their jobs and said workers should not resort to any strike action which “only serve the enemy interests in the nation.” News of Castro’s impending resignation swept like wildfire across the city. The executive board of the giant Cuban Confederation of Labor met in emergency session to draft measures to prove their support for Castro. The organized university students federation called on members to be ready for similar demonstrations. The UPI learned early today of Castro’s decision to resign. The decision was confirmed by the official newspaper of Castro’S “26th of July Movement.” Revolution put out an extra with a 5% inch headline* “Fidel Resigns.” The newspaper said it learned that Castro “took in the last few hours the decision to resign his job which he < accepted some few months ago because of the imperative national need.” Informed sources did not attribute the resignation report to any internal crisis. The dramatic gestures was apparently designed to strengthen Castro’s hand in the current tension in the Caribbean. The OAS meets in Santiago, Chile, and a meeting date of Aug. 3 to Aug. 10 has begn suggested, but the Chilean government will set the final date. The meeting was called after the Dominican Republic charged Cuba and Venezuela with aggression. Two Polio Cases From Lake County GARY, Ind. (UPI) — Two new polio cases were reported today in Lake County, bringing the total number of cases for this county to fair this year. Neither of the two had received Salk vaccine. Lewis Ketler, 32, East Gary, was reported in critical condition at Methodist Hospital where he was treated in an iron lung for bulbar polio. Carleta Brownfield, 1, Griffith, was being treated at her home for a milder case. One of the four 1959 cases, an East Chicago girl, is the state’s only known polio death this year. She had no vaccine. Lake County reported six polio cases by this time last year.

STILL MAKING STEEL—Workers at the Dearborn, Mich., steel division of Ford Motor Company watch as one of the ten open hearth furnaces pours out the fiery metal. The workers, members of the United Auto Workers are among 6300 employed by the steel division which is not affected by the strike of United Steel Workers.

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Lodge Home Fails To Sell Here Thursday The auction of the 50-year-old Knights of Pythias lodge home, 109 N. Third street, ended in “no sale” Thursday afternoon as the highest bid of $9,500 was not considered a warranted bid by the board of directors. The George Thomas Realty Co. of Decatur conducted the auction, with James Beery as auctioneer. The K. of P. board set a pre-sale price of almost double what the highest bidder submitted. A spokesman for the lodge said that if the building had been sold, the organization would attempt to purchase a smaller, two-story building and conduct club activities on the second story. The ground level site would be rented to a business, allowing the lodge to gain an income as well as having facilities for its functions. The 43 by 86-foot building is on a 66 by 160-foot lot in the business district of the city. It has two large rooms, the one upstairs being 55 by 55 feet and the downstairs being 40 by 48 feet, besides seven other rooms of various sizes. The terms of the auction sale were to have been 20 per cent down with the balance to be paid upon delivery of a clear abstract and warranty deed. The spokesman added that the club would endeavor to sell the home through private negotiations. Army Truck Stolen From Armory Pool SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPD— Authorities today sought a l*4-ton Army truck reported stolen Thursday from the Indiana National I Guard Armory motor pool here.

Secret Talks By Big Four

GENEVA (UPD—The West launched a new round of secret Big Four talks today with a demand that Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev withdraw the war threat from Berlin at once if he really means his latest pledge of peace. The Soviet premier’s declaration in Poland Thursday that Russia will-“never, never, never” start a war gave the West an immediate opening to challenge Soviet threats against Berlin and Russian rebuffs of Western efforts to keep the peace in the divided city.

The Big Four finally got down to secret talks at an intimate lunch today, after a four-day filibuster by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who maintained at first he was against secret talks without East German participation. Gromyko Attends Lunch

But Gromyko abandoned the propaganda-loaded open plenary sessions for the moment, and went

Approves Fund For Atom Commission

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Appropriations Committee today approved a bill providing the Atomic Energy Commission with $2,629,114,000 in overall expenses for the current fiscal year. The measure was $58,186,000 less than President Eisenhower requested. But the committee said unspent funds from the old budget would boost available money to $2,945,845,000. The allotment includes $65,000,000 for research on the power plant for a nuclear-propelled airplane. There also is money for investigation of a theory that fuel can be extracted from grain by subjecting.it to radiation. Other congressional news: Contracts: The Navy admitted making mistakes on defense contracts which cost the government more than 12 million dollars in overpayments. But Cecil P. Milne, assistant Navy secretary, denied that officials negotiating contracts were “incompetent or deliberately careless.” Farm Program: Rep. L.IL Fountain (D-N.C.) charged that there has been waste and poor management in the government’s big export program for farm products. He told the House Agriculture Committee there is need for legislation to correct “the apparent failure of responsible officials of the department of agriculture to appreciate the value of a dollar and to take ordinary, common-sense precautions.” Foreign Aid: Senate-House conferees continued efforts to reach a compromise figure on authorization of foreign aid funds. They tentatively agreed on a cut in military aid to latin amencan na-

to lunch at the villa of French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murvflle. — . - U.S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and his Western partners hoped in the privacy of lunch to convince Gromyko the West will not budge cm its rights in Berlin and will not recognize the puppet East German regime. They also wanted to find out whether Khrushchev’s “no war” speech at Katowice, Poland Thursday was a sincere statement or just more propaganda. No one in the West expected any magic breakthrough now that secret negotiation had begun at last. In fact, some delegations were expressing the belief the present Big Four sessions may drag out through another four or five weeks if a Berlin truce is achieved at all. The first session lasted six weeks and ended in stalemate. Shortly before Herter, Couve de Murville, Gromyko and British Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd sat down to lunch, West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano flew back to Geneva from Bonn, where he conferred with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. German Chancellor Worried He may have brought new advice from Adenauer, who has grown increasingly worried that the West might give away too much in its desire to end the Berlin crisis. Neither the East nor the West German were invited to the secret talks. The Western ministers hoped that in such get-togethers Gromyko would be more frank and businesslike and leave out the propaganda that attends the semi-public sessions. Thursday, at a public session, he sounded as tough as ever. One minute he appeared to be deliberately slowing down the march toward the summit which the Russians haVe been campaigning so hard for. The next minute he appeared to be backtracking on several points—raising hopes there might be a compromise.

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tions. The group hoped to finish work on the bill by nightfall. Labor reform: The House Labor Committee hopes to finish drafting a labor reform bill. The lawmakers worked until almost midnight Thursday night. They tentatively accepted a controversial section of the Senate-passed bill which would impose stricter crubs on organizational picketing and so-called “hot cargo” contracts. Interest: The AFL-CIO told Congress that President Eisenhower’s proposal to erase the interest rate eiling on long-term government bonds would enrich the money lenders and bankers. Andrew J. Biemiller, the federation’s chief lobbyist, told every senator and congressman in identical letters that the proposal was no needed “to protect the solvency of the federal government.” Democrats: Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler is claiming that the public response to his criticism of his party’s congressional leaders is running 6% to 1 in his favor. Butler also has written to all Democrats in the House and Senate that he is not backing down from his contention that the congressional chieftains’ “conservative and moderate” attitude will hurt the Democrats at the polls in 1960. Army Reserve Unit To Camp Next Week While a sense of pressing urgency is lacking in peacetime, Ist Lt. Henry S. Commager, commanding officer of the local Army reserve unit, said today that his command has shown an unusually high amount of spirit and good morale as they prepare to embark on two weeks of summer training at Fort Carson, Colo., on Sunday morning. The 53 "weekend warriors,” representing two thirds of the sth howitzer battalion, 13th artillery regiment, who will fly by commercial plane to the area of the Air Force Academy and the Rocky Mountains at 11 a.m. from Baer Field in Fort Wayne, will spend one'-week on team work training, orienting the local reservists on methods of actual combat conditions. The unit recently became a member of the “Pentomic” Army, this the new title designation. The second week will be spent on the range, simulating an actual attack, with the unit functioning as an independent organization. In the past, the group was dependent on other units for such items as food, fire control, or other vital assistance. Because the local group has incorporated all the necessary parts of a fighting organization ito one body it will function on its own for the first time. . The prime obpective of file unit will be coordinated efforts at firing the 81inch howitzers. All personnel will be directed to make this as effective t as possible. The cooks will supply the food, the ordinance men will provide the ammunition, and other primary duties will lend themselves to the overall purpose of destroying the target. Lt. Commager said that a list of personnel will be available for publication later this week. He also requested that local residents attend the send-off Sunday morning from the training center at 10 a.m. The center is located about a mile northeast of the bridge on old U.S. 27, on the road to Monmouth. Falls From Scaffold, Suffers Broken Leg Leon Skinner. 51, of 215 W. Jefferson, originally of Mt. Vernon, 111., a workman at the First State Bank improvement, suffered a broken leg this morning when he slipped from a scaffold. Skinner was admitted to the Adams county memorial hospital at 10:30 a.m. and X-rays were takeh of both kiiees and both ankles. A cast was placed on the right leg, with a walking heel, following the X-rays. s

Wheat Referendum Here Next Thursday Adams county farmers will vote at two polls in next Thursday’s wheat referendum, James Garboden, chairman of the Adams county agricultural stabilization and conservation committee, announced today. Farmers in Blue Creek, French, Hartford, Jefferson, Monroe and Wabash townships will vote in the city hall at Berne. All others will vote at the county ASC office, in Decatur, 1021& North Second street. Voting places will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Any farmer wno in >1960 will have more than 15 acres of wheat for harvest as grain on a farm, except those who art participating in the 1959 feed wheat program, are eligible to vote in the referendum. If at least two-thirds of the growers who vote approve the wheat marketing quotas, voting “yes,” the quotas will remain in effect for 1960 crop wheat, and price support will be available to farmers who comply "with their farm wheat allotments. The supports will be at least 75 per cent of parity. Farmers who grow more than 15 acres will be subject to a marketing penalty of 45 per cent of the wheat parity price on their “excess” wheat. If tihe quotas are not approved by at least two-thirds of the growers voting, the quotas and penalties will not be in effect, and price support will be available to farmers who comply with their farm wheat allotments at 50 per cent of .parity, as directed by law. At current parity levels, that would be about sl.lß per bushel.

Central Soya, Union To Extend Contract Local No. 261 of the United Brewery Workers has ratified an agreement with the Central Soya company for an extension of the present contract until July 1,1962. The present agreement, due to expire July 1, 1960, provided for wave negotiations this year. Negotiations were carried on during June and the early part of this month. The new agreement provides for wage increases of eight cents an hour for all bargaining unit employes effective July 1, an additional eight cents an hour, effective July 1. 1960, and a further increase of eight cents an hour July 1, 1961. Another major change provides for four weeks paid vacation after 20 years service beginning in 1961. Both company and union officials expressed satisfaction with the agreement reached. The contract establishes a firm basis for continued good relations between the company, union and employes, spokesmen stated. Representing the union during the negotiations were Mel Greenthal, international representative, Kenneth Hirschy, president of the local union, Albert Tinkham, recording secretary, Wayne Peterson, Paul Morgan, Wayne Hurtt. Dwight Whitacre, Doyle Painter, James Shackley, Clarence Lengerich, George Alton, Robert Shoup, and Harold Miller. The company was represented by Tom Allwein, plant manager. Paul E. Hensel, vice president for personnel, Bob Chappuis, labor relations director, and Bill Small, plant personnel director. Funeral Saturday For Albert Werling Funeral Services will, be conducted at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Zwick • funeral home for Albert (Peck) Werling, 86, who died Thursday after an illness of, 151 months. The Rev. L. W. Schulen-j berg will officiate, and burial will be in the Decatur cerrtetery.: Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

Says Crippling Polio Is On Upward March WASHINGTON (UPI) — Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney warned today that crippling polio is on the upward march this summer—particularly among, the unvaccinated. The nation’s health chief said that about nine out of 10 of the cases have been reported among persons who have not had antipolio shots. Burney also told United Press International the number of cases of paralytic polio this year is more than double the toll at this time last year. The Public Health Service said there were 681 cases of paralytic polio reported through the first 26 weeks of 1959. This compares with 329 victims during the same period last year and “reflects the consistently upward trend of polio cases since April.” Dr. Burney said preliminary figures to be made public later today show the polio rate rise continued this week. Kansas City, Kan., Des Moines. lowa, Little Rock, Ark. and Oklahoma City, Okla, were the hardhit areas which have reported a “substantially greater” humber ot cases this year. “I, cannot urge too strongly,’’ Burney said, “the need for pushing ahead with the drive to vaccinate the unvaccinated. It is not too late either to start or complete the Salk shot series.” Dr. Burney described as “highly encouraging” the intensive community drives which have been conducted in recent months with the resulting inoculation of hundreds of thousands of persons. As a result of these “get vaccinated” canpaigns, Dr. Burney said, there has been a drain on the vaccine supply and there may be "occasional delays” during the next few weeks in obtaining vaccine in some areas. There are about 70 million persons who have had one or more of the three-shot series. The PHS considers Salk vaccine 75 per cent to 80 per cent effective against the virus. Last June, an advisory group recommended a fourth or “booster” shot be given to persons under 40 who had their third shot a year or more ago. Late Bulletins SEOUL (UPI) — A sudden rainstorm sent thousands of Koreans fighting their way out of a stadium in Pusan tonight in a death-filled stampede. Orient Press said in a dispatch from the southern port city that 47 bodies had been counted. Several hundred others were reported injured. WASHINGTON (UPD—President Eisenhower today asked Congress to approve spending $32,400,000 in foreign currencies credited to the U. S. government in return for surplus crops sent abroad.

Begin Judging Monday For 4-H Fair

Home economics projects for all Adams county 4-H’ers will be judged next week in local judging, beginning Monday at Monmouth. During the week of local judging which precedes the week of the county 4-H fair, the projects in foods, food preservation, and clothing are judged for first, secand, and third placings. Later on in the week, the blue ribbon, or “A” group, will be judged again to determine the honor group in each division, which will have five placings, each placing receiving a a grand champion in each project, one grand champion in project. This system of awarding ribbons will be in effect for all classes, except for the very small ones. For these, premium ribbons will be awarded at the discretion of the judges. Next Monday, July 20, the Union Pals’ and the Monmouth Merry Maids’ projects will be judged at Monmouth school, the Pals at 9130 a. m., the Merry Maids, at 1 p. m. Tuesday, die judges will be in Decatur in the American Legion home, and the projects of the Preble Jolly Juniors will be judged beginning at 8:30 a. m„ the Decatur Peppy Gals, at 9 a. m., and the Preble Peppy Pals, at 11 a. m. That afternoon the judging moves on to Adams Central school, where Monroe Boosterettes' projects will be judged beginning at 1 p. m. Wednesday, judging continues at Adams beginning at 8 a. m., with the Washington Hustlers: 9:30 a. m.. Blue Creek Up and At It; 11:15 a. m„ Kirkland Kut Ups; 1 p. m., French Peppy

Steel Strike Cuts Deeper

PITTSBURGH (UPD — The strike against the nation’s basic steel industry cut deeper into employment in related fields today. With no further peace talks scheduled until Monday at the earliest, United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald and his top lieutenants carried their fight for a better contract to the picket lines. In addition to the half-million USW members who struck at mills from coast-to-coast at one minute after midnight last Tuesday, it was estimated that more than 25,000 railroaders, truckdrivers, miners and seamen were idle because of the steel strike. More layoffs in those lines were expected to raise the total to 75,000 in another week or two. The possibility of a second metals industry strike grew when the USW presented virtual carbon copies of its major steel demands to the nation’s three major aluminum producers, Alcoa, Reynolds and Kaiser. About 31,500 workers in the three companies come under contracts that run out July 31. McDonald Addresses Workers McDonald took his argumentsto the men in the mill Thursday and showed up at the Bethlehem Steel Co. plant in ethlehem, Pa., where he addressed an estimated 2,500 workers. He bitterly assailed the industry’s negotiating team as a pack of “messenger boys” who had "absolutely no authority to negotiate." McDonald said, “steel does not Want a new contract. . .their talks were as phony as a seven-dollar bill.'’ “I guarantee you some day we will have an agreement, and it will not be for pigs, it will be for men of steel and men of dignity,” he told the gathering. His visit with the Bethlehem pickets was the first in a series to steel centers around the country. USW Vice President Howard R. Hague and Secretary-Treasurer L W. Abel hit the picket trail at Gary, Ind., and Pittsburgh, respectively. Huge Steel, Wage Loss Each day the strike continues, the United States loses 300,000 in-got-tons of steel. The workers will have lost about 62 million dollars in wages by the end of the first week and the industry 248 million dollars in business. Picketing was reported orderly at steel mills across the country, but at one plant a too-close check on the picket line backfired. A sheduled payday Thursday for 2,000 workers at the American Steel and Wire plant at Joliet, 111., was cancelled because pickets refused to permit a payroll employe to enter the mill. The strike spread to Canada also. Workers at the giant Marmaraton mines at Marmora. Ont., walked off their jobs at midnight Wednesday. Chief Federal Mediator Joseph F. Finnegan expressed pessi-

and five in the food preparation Peppers, and 2:30 p. m., St. Mary's Kekiongas. Thursday the southern county clubs’ projects will be judged at the Berne school, beginning at 8:30 a. m., with the Berne Jolly Workers; 10:15 a. m., Jefferson Work and Win; 12:30 p. m., Wabash Cloverleaf; 1:15 p. m., Hartford Happy-Go-Lucky, and 2:30 p. m., Wabash Cloverblossom. Friday the \ judging activities will return to Adams Central school. Between 8 and 9 a. m., the home improvement exhibits are due. and at 9 the home improvement judging begins. At 9:30 a. m., the clothing is due for the premium judging, and at 10 a. m„ this judging begins. In the afternoon and evening, the dress revue practices will be in session. At 2 p. m„ the junior dress revue participants will practice, and at 7 p. m. will be die practice for the senior dress revue. Mrs. Luke Trama, Bryan, 0., will judge the i-»ods projects, and Mrs. Dwight Smith, Convoy, 0., will be judge for the clothing projects. Change in Foods . This year, there will be a change in uie foods division, as the baking and food preparation projects are gradually being combined into one class. This year, there are divisions one, two, and three, in the foods classes, and divisions four and five for both hnking and food preparation. (Last vear. there were foods divisions one and two. and bakin® divisions three, four, and five.) This year, only the divisions four

mism. He said it is impossible to determine how long it will take to reach an agreement. However, Finnegan has scheduled separate talks with union and management tor next Monday in New York. Finnegan told Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell the problem isn't going to be worked out “by waving of magic wands or by mysterious formuals.” Lima Man Speaker At Rotary Meeting Dwayne Shields, an executive with the Superior Coach Corp., of Lima, 0., was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Shields, whose company is the largest school bus manufacturer in the country, pointed to the economic lessons this part of the nation can learh from a growing industrial south. The speaker recently spent some time in Mississippi and termed it a “diamond in the rough.” The state has been basically agriculture through the years, with cotton as the principal crop. But with the cotton crop reduced, Mississippi has entered other fields in order to survive. Since 1954, 400 new industrial plants have started operations in the state, with many industries leaving the New England states and Michigan. Small communities, Shields said, must maintain a favorable industrial climate. The south is being successful because of state promotion, active promotion by utilities, a friendly and hard working labor • force, a successful “buy locally” program. Harry Moyer, of Lima, a former Decatur resident, introduced the speaker, and James Elberson, also . a former 1 Decatur resident, introduced five visiting Rotarians from Lima. Clarence Ziner was chairman of the program. Announcement was made that the district governor ’ will pay his official visit to the Decatur club Thursday, July 30. Jesse Sellemeyer, former member of the club who has returned to Decatur to make his home, was introduced as a new honorary member of the club. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, warm and humid with scattered showers and thundershowers this afternoon through Saturday. Low tonight 68 to 73. High Saturday 88 to 92. Sunset today 8:11 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 5:32 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy, warm and humid with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. Low near 70. High near 90.

projects will be judged during the fair week, while the remaining projects will be fudged in local judging before the fair. Although, 4-H’ers enrolled in the home ec projects, as in other projects, must show completed record books to show what additional work they did during the summer at home, they wifi be required to exhibit these things: foods, division one, cookies; two, simple butter cake; three, fruit upside down cake. In baking four, the 4-H’ers will exhibit yeast rolls, and five, either fancy yeast bread, angel food or chiffon cake, white or dark cake, or plain or fancy cookies. In the food preservation projects, also to be judged before the fair, there will be these exhibits: division one, three jars or packages of fruit, of two varieties; two, the same requirements, for vegetables; three, two vegetables, two fruits, of two varieties each; four, the same, except that three containers and varieties are required. In division five, there are several choices, among them a set of two fruits, two vegetables, and two meats. ?- , - ' - „ In clothing projects, the exhibit requirements run from simple — acrons to complete costumes. In division one, the 4-TTer win exhibit either an acron or a drawstring bag; two. skirt: three, dress or iumner and blouse: four, school or snorts dress, washable: five, school or snoots dress, anv fabric; six. date, afternoon, or reorts dress; seven, a comnlefo costnmn, which rn»v be » n»r»v dress, suits, coats, dresses, etc.

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